Posted: Sun 02 Dec 2012, 18:33 Post subject:
Little things do make for good system understanding.

Don't know who to thank properly, but, THANK YOU 01Micko for the mouse-over change to the taskbar "Network icon": It now shows the current IP address of this PC...."Thanks for the understanding, and the implementation in Slacko".

All of these contributions makes for simpler and simpler use of the desktop and useful services to all users.

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You can see the IP address when you mouse-over the taskbar's Networking icon.

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I've tried every sequence I can think of to remove nvidia before upgrading the frugal install (a safe copy obviously) to 5.4 but in all cases x refuses to startup after the upgrade. xorgwizard choose strangely seems to say that nvidia is still present even though I've removed the sfs and changed to another driver before doing the upgrade.

After you change the video driver in Xorgwizard are you doing a complete reboot to start using the new driver?
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Even though they are not dependencies, per se, should there be a process to install these?

As you know, JRE is required for running some JAVA apps that I use and for LIbreOffice as well as others.

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request PPM installation of JRE

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Missing Lib alert from PPM

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3 Different Puppy Search Enginesor use DogPileLast edited by gcmartin on Mon 03 Dec 2012, 00:52; edited 1 time in total

I would have liked to upgrade my Slacko 5.3.3 savefile on my desktop to the new 5.4 but I've run into a problem...x refuses to startup after the upgrade...Would be interested to hear from anybody else in this situation...I've made so many tweaks to get the 5.3.3 system working as I want I'd really like to upgrade the savefile if at all possible.

Same here...
After the upgrade of my slackosave file from 5.3.3.1 to 5.4 I get a black desktop with some icons and the toolbar and menu, but various programs don't work.
Tried ctrl+backspace->xorgwizard, which appears to be working, but fails to produce a fix.

tryed saving back to cd multisession cd = pup mode 77
tried several times saves about 3 times then keeps saying time to migrate to new cd found 1 bad sector
so i tryed migrate to new cd will not save
any ideas ?

I installed several applications using ppm and added some other stuff.
Sfs Load-on-the-fly didn't work for installing the devx and kernel
source sfs files (at least waiting over 5 minutes didn't do it) so I
used the boot manager to install them.
I may have been mistaken about sound on my D620 laptop, I think I just
needed to set the level for the speaker.
Sound is working on this pc and retrovol isn't configured, I set the
sound levels with alsamixer.

Frugal install of slacko-5.4-firefox. Running beautifully and fast on my Quad-core, Ati-Radeon 3100. So the problem I'm reporting is not with the ISO, per se.
I initially used a SaveFile from 5.3.9 --which upgraded otherwise without a hitch-- but having run into the below problem removed it and booted a clean install which didn't solve the problem, although doing so revealed that fixmenus had to be run from a terminal when the SFS was loaded in order to create menu entries.
The problem is with LibreOffice-3.6.0_en,sfs. I think it's your build but am not certain as I've been using it for a while in Slacko, Exprimo and various precise pups. When loaded, all writer, calc, and impress (didn't try other apps) can be run by clicking their icons in /usr/share/applications, or from launchers created in the fbpanel I installed. But, although menu entries are created (but note fixmenus requirement, above) the applications can not be launched from the menu.
I think this is a "multimple-reference" problem: that is, the menu entries are scripts to the files in /usr/share/applications/, but those files are themselves symlinks to the files at /opt/libreoffice3.6/share/xdg which calls scripts in /opt/libreoffice3.6/program.

If you used soft-symlinks (i.e., link (relative) or their programming equivalent) to create the link between /usr/applications and /opt/libreoffice3.6/share/xdg, in the future try using hard-symlinks --that is link (absolute), or its programming equivalent. If my memory serves me (a chancy proposition) I recall overcoming a "symlink" problem I previously encountered by switching to hard-links. [Not my original inspiration, but the result of an e-mail concerning the difference between hard and soft symlinks which I think referenced CatDude's work).

FWIW, the menu entry for gimp-2.8.2-precise.sfs functioned as expected. The gimp.desktop file in /usr/share/applications is NOT a symlink.

I downloaded /mnt/home/LibreOffice-3.6.3_en-US.sfs and selected it
with the bootmanger and rebooted.
All the menus were there on getting back to the desktop (in the
Document and Business sections) and they all work.

I have [finally ] got the opera-4g iso image up to ibiblio. The upload broke, oh, about a thousand times! The bytesize is correct on the remote server but could someone please download and verify the md5 checksum. It should rsync to nluug in the next few hours. The bytesize is 162615296 B (155.1 M), check that before you grab it off of a mirror as it may have rsynced while broken.

My efforts will be ongoing over the next few days to get all iso images and devx up there. I will, as each is done, be making similar requests for the respective files as uploaded.

I have [finally ] got the opera-4g iso image up to ibiblio. The upload broke, oh, about a thousand times! The bytesize is correct on the remote server but could someone please download and verify the md5 checksum. It should rsync to nluug in the next few hours. The bytesize is 162615296 B (155.1 M), check that before you grab it off of a mirror as it may have rsynced while broken.

My efforts will be ongoing over the next few days to get all iso images and devx up there. I will, as each is done, be making similar requests for the respective files as uploaded.

I have [finally ] got the opera-4g iso image up to ibiblio. The upload broke, oh, about a thousand times! The bytesize is correct on the remote server but could someone please download and verify the md5 checksum. It should rsync to nluug in the next few hours. The bytesize is 162615296 B (155.1 M), check that before you grab it off of a mirror as it may have rsynced while broken.

My efforts will be ongoing over the next few days to get all iso images and devx up there. I will, as each is done, be making similar requests for the respective files as uploaded.

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